Pin-receiving device.



E. D. CONKLIN.

PIN RECEIVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1913.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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EDWARD D. CONKLIN, 0E MADISON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

Application filed May 27, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. CONKLIN, of Madison, in the county of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, lliWB invented new and useful Improvements in Pin-Receiving Devices, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in pin receiving devices, and is a device of the same nature as that shown in my pending application Serial No. 7%,268, filed January 21, 1913.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and unitary article of manufacture which may be constructed with a minimum amount of labor and parts, and avoiding the use of a rear retaining plate by slotting and inwardly bending the rear edge of the collet, whereby a mirror or similar device is retained against a front flange upon the collet by means of an interposed packing, the slots adapted at the same time to allow the insertion of pins into said packing.

In the drawingsFigure l is a face View of my device. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 33, Fig. 2.

The device comprises a colletor ring -1- of sheet metal or other material, having a circumferential and inwardly extending flange 2 upon its front edge, and its rear edge having portions thereof cut away to form a plurality of slots 3.

The device is shown as having a mirror Copies of this Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Serial No. 770,096.

terial adapted to disclose or display advert1s1ng, decorative or other matter. The rear edge of the collet 1- is then stamped inwardly and against the rear face of the covering 8- to form a flange 9-, whereby the mirror is firmly held against the flange 2. The slots 3 extend inwardly through the flange 9- and into the main body of the collet 1- a sufficient distance so that a pin, as 10, passed therethrough will extend into and be retained by the puncturable material 5- and preferably these slots terminate at a point immediately adjacent the rear edge of the mirror -4l.

It is readily apparent that although I have shown and described the part 4:- as a mirror, it may be any other useful or ornamental device, and that the covering 8 may be a plain sheet of material or that the same may be entirely omitted, without departing from the scope of this invention as set forth in the appended claim.

What I claim is:

In a pin-receiving device, an'annular collet having its front edge inturned to form a circumferential flange, the opposite edge being slotted to form a plurality of pinreceiving openings at the rear of the flange, a panel fitted within the collet and having its edge resting against said flange, a protective sheet at the rear of said panel, a pad of puncturable material fitted within the collet and supported on one side by the protective sheet, a second supporting sheet within the collet at the opposite side of the pad, the slotted rear edge of said collet flanged inwardly to hold the supporting sheets, the puncturable pad, and the panel in operable position.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th dav of May 1913.

EDXVARD D. GONKLIN.

Witnesses:

G. MCCLELLAN, J. C. KELLY.

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